I met Wendy as she was approaching the Academic Quad and we chatted and I discovered that she has lived in Chengdu, and that she is taking a difficult curriculum at Rice and that she was very close to the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake ). She cheerfully participated in this hand-held, 360 degree panorama.

This hand-held, 360-degree panorama was taken with a Leica D-Lux 3 camera and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. Additional details can be found on Stitcher Notes with information there concerning the GigaPan Stitcher run.

Note: This glorious panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth (assuming that you have Google Earth installed on your computer).